Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you have experience running their services on a Lenovo ThinkCentre, specifically a Lenovo ThinkCentre M70Q Gen1? From what I read they can be quite efficient when it comes to idle power draw.
I have the chance to buy a refurbished one for approx. €380, coming with a i5-10400T, 16 GB RAM and a 256 GB NVMe SSD. Do you guys think the price sounds fair?
I am mainly looking to expand my Proxmox single host setup comprising of an Intel N150 mini PC with a second node as backup. Maybe down the line if I can get my hands on another affordable mini PC I might dabble in setting up a Kubernetes cluster. But that’s a project for another day 😄
+1 for ThinkCentres, theyre basically perfect for this. quiet, cheap, sips power
if youre looking for something to make the software side painless too, I built Syncloud (https://syncloud.org/) - yeah im biased haha. but its open source, basically an app store where you click install for Nextcloud/Jellyfin/etc and it sets up https and login stuff for you. sbould run great on a ThinkCentre
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